Critical Survey: MSC Income Fund (MSIF) & Its Competitors

MSC Income Fund (NYSE:MSIF) is one of 1,748 publicly-traded companies in the “Capital Markets” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare MSC Income Fund to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and risk.

Profitability

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MSC Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSC Income Fund Competitors	266.99%	77.99%	3.52%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
MSC Income Fund	$110.26 million	N/A	-3,759.02
MSC Income Fund Competitors	$2.23 billion	$396.25 million	8.85

MSC Income Fund’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than MSC Income Fund. MSC Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for MSC Income Fund and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MSC Income Fund	0	3	2	1	2.67
MSC Income Fund Competitors	5372	19707	21892	613	2.37

MSC Income Fund presently has a consensus price target of $13.88, suggesting a potential upside of 11.89%. As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 27.46%. Given MSC Income Fund’s peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MSC Income Fund has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

30.6% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

MSC Income Fund peers beat MSC Income Fund on 9 of the 11 factors compared.